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If you have fairly sophisticated formatting needs, like if you’re writing technical papers with formulae, the latex is a help. For most authors, who are in the
by enneff 6y ago
If you have fairly sophisticated formatting needs, like if you’re writing technical papers with formulae, the latex is a help. For most authors, who are in the business of writing words (not formatting documents) latex offers nothing.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoIn grad school (philosophy) I found Latex (via Markdown/pandoc) let me focus on writing words and do styling/layout of my papers (and keeping the bibliography consistent) as a separate task.
- pmiller2 6y agoLaTeX works great for just writing words, too. \documentclass{article} \begin{document} <your words here> \end {document} is pretty lightweight and distraction-free. Substitute the appropriate documentclass for whatever thing you're working on (book, report, whatever), and it will just work, provided you're willing to accept a lot of default formatting. Once you get into twiddling formatting, then you're back in the realm of non-distraction-free writing, but that's not the tool's fault.